Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is the least-populated region in the lower 48. Walking a riverbank, you are more likely to meet a black bear, wolf, bobcat, or whitetail deer than you are a human—which is why M. Bartley Seigel calls the UP... Read More

If you walk long enough to see your hair turn gray, fending brush from your face through starless nights, note taking to the cadence of seasons, your poetry will reach great heights—that is, if Kelly Shepherd’s modus operandi holds... Read More

Trifle, in poet speak, refers to what doesn’t make the cut, to all of the musings and ideas that are deemed unworthy—why bother? Trifle, in other words, offers a wonderful window into a poets head and what they care to keep top of... Read More

Neuroscientists speculate that humans might have thirty or more senses, and we speculate that Patrycja Humienik’s acute sense of longing for a place that no longer exists on a map affects the way she perceives all the others. She is an... Read More

This charming picture book for all ages celebrates life on four wheels in lovely watercolor style. A parade of campers is introduced, each with its own personality and attributes: Bob the Boler cruises down an autumnal road, cutting a... Read More

A Latina girl sleuths on Capitol Hill to help her congressman friend in Kitty Felde’s entertaining, civic-minded mystery novel "Snake in the Grass". Fina is a California congressman’s daughter who is used to meeting her father’s... Read More

Black students and their white teacher brave persecution in Wilfred Lupano’s moving, enlightening graphic novel "Surrounded". In 1832, Prudence Crandall’s decision to admit Black girls to her Connecticut boarding school draws the ire... Read More

Celebrating the seductive lines of classic designs, Dominic Bradbury’s coffee table book "Mid-Century Modern Designers" is sure to please aesthetes and home decorators alike. Their palettes “colorful and joyful” and their designs... Read More